Skew type, Formatting paragraphs, Adjust paragraph spacing – Adobe InDesign CS4 User Manual
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USING INDESIGN CS4
Typography
You can change a preferences option to indicate how scaled text appears in panels:
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By default, with Apply To Content selected, the Font Size boxes in the Control panel and Character panel list the
new size of text (such as 40 pt). If you select the Adjust Scaling Percentage option, the Font Size boxes display both
the original and the scaled size of the text, such as “20 pt (40).”
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The scaling values in the Transform panel tell you the horizontal and vertical percentage by which the frame was
scaled. By default, with Apply To Content selected, scaling values display at 100% after a text is scaled. If you select
the Adjust Scaling Percentage option, the scaling values reflect the scaled frame, so doubling the scale of a frame
displays as 200%.
Tracking scale changes to frames is useful if you have to revert a frame and the text inside it to their original size. It’s
useful as well for finding out by how much you changed the size of a frame. To track scale changes to frames and the
text inside these frames:
1 Choose Edit > Preferences
> General (Windows) or InDesign
> Preferences
> General (Mac
OS).
2 Select Adjust Scaling Percentage, and then click OK.
Note the following:
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The Adjust Scaling Percentage preference applies to frames that you scale after the preference is turned on, not to
existing frames.
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The Adjust Scaling Percentage preference stays with the text. The scaled point size continues to appear in
parentheses even if you turn off the Adjust Scaling Percentage preference and scale the frame again.
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To remove the scaled point size from the Transform panel, choose Redefine Scaling as 100% in the Transform
panel. Choosing this option doesn’t change the appearance of the scaled frame.
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If you edit the text or scale a frame within threaded frames when the Adjust Scaling Percentage preference is
selected, the text is scaled, even if it moves to a different frame. However, if Apply To Content is selected, any text
that flows to a different frame as a result of editing is no longer scaled.
Skew type
1 Select text.
2 In the Character panel, type a numeric value for Skewing
. Positive values slant type to the right; negative values
slant type to the left.
Note that applying an angle to type does not produce true italic characters.
Formatting paragraphs
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Adjust paragraph spacing
You can control the amount of space between paragraphs. If a paragraph begins at the top of a column or frame,
InDesign does not insert extra space before the paragraph. In such a case, you can increase the leading of the first line
of the paragraph or increase the top inset of the text frame in InDesign.
1 Select text.
2 In the Paragraph panel or the Control panel, adjust the appropriate values for Space Before
and Space After
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Updated 18 June 2009